Sark Aztik

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(trying to keep this as spoil free as possible) The best movie I've seen in a very long time. I went in blind not really knowing anything but "comedy" and "multiverse" but it really is so much more to it than that. The plot itself is extremely simple (not sure why a few have issues with understanding it). If you don't want to follow the crazy universe hopping, which I can understand for older folk, it can be broken down to it's most simple of parts into a story about a fractured family with one single character in the very middle and mostly the cause of said familial problems. The main character goes on an absolutely crazy adventure through different universes where they experience their life in completely different ways from the one they currently lead and the story plays out showing the effect of knowing such information has on them. It's absolutely hilarious, gut-wrenching, wholesome, and even full of fantastically choreographed fight scenes all in a fantastic blend. Even in the times when things become sad, they throw in some comedy that doesn't truly feel like it takes away from the moment but it does help alleviate the "feels" a bit. (Especially when the plot hits close to home for a lot of people) I was able to laugh and cry at the same time without feeling like I was stretched too thin. While I feel like the message behind the movie is extremely simple and can portrayed even without the crazy shenanigans of universe-hopping, this insanity is what gives the movie the character it needed to really elevate itself into something special. Hell, the most touching moment in the movie for me was in one of these different universes and even though it was hilarious, I was still touched by the moment despite being able to laugh. Heck, even though the movie is quite long (for me at least) it never felt like it was overstaying it's welcome and I never had that feeling of "okay, let's wrap this up." that I feel with 90% of movies in the theater. Heavily recommend to most people, if they can deal with the off-the-wall shenanigans that occur.

Sadly not a great movie. I love Jordan Peele's work, but this one is all symbolic nonsense and zero substance. The worst thing you can do in a movie is make it boring. This movie is incredibly boring. Not bad, which I can at least appreciate ironically, but equivalent to the taste of water-- it's there and has the substance to make it a movie, but isn't satisfying. 2 hours felt like 4 and I was falling asleep in what is considered the "climax" of the movie (which is also boring). Many storylines begin as quickly as they end with no answers or seemingly any point. This movie is the visual equivalent of being "blue-balled" as you're expecting cool and exciting stuff to happen but it never does. Even at the climax it feels like "is this it?". It was WAY to long for what we got and scenes were dragged out, not to create suspense (as there was very little) but simply just to add screentime. There is nothing of merit here as far as the story goes. At least the acting is solid and the cinematography is great. It doesn't even know what genre it wants to be. It was advertised as horror or suspense but it is far from that. Too much time is spent talking about horses and establishing backgrounds and storylines that are mostly minor (putting it kindly) to the plot that by the time the main plot device comes around it just feels a bit underwhelming and disconnected. Honestly the Gordy scenes were more interesting than the rest of the movie, too bad the "message" there isn't really important and not really worth making part of a movie about. I give credit to the actors and actresses for working with what they had, but the focus on symbolism (none of which is apparent or apparently important enough to make apparent to the watcher) made Peele blind to the idea that movies are supposed to be entertaining to watch. This movie is not, neither is it thought provoking or deep. I think this may be the first movie I've seen in years (in theaters) that made me feel like I wasted my money and time. "Nope" is my answer to whether you should spend money to go see this movie. Too many 5 star wannabe artsy-fartsy reviews thinking they have found some special message or inspiration from this movie. Many of them don't know what they're talking about. Literally nothing in this movie had a set-in-stone message because the story symbolism wasn't portrayed well. Anyone with even minor analytical skills can see this. The messages were well portrayed in Get Out and Us, but this movie is trying to do too much with too little all while having a supposed message (or at least what some people *think* the message is about) that doesn't make for a good movie.

These wholly negative reviews are honestly beyond me, being around 20 hours into the game. It seems like a lot of people didn't enjoy the game, and that's fine of course, but it also seems like for many that the game just isn't for you, which doesn't make a lot of these reviews reliable. I hate racing games, so me giving them 1 star because they're not what I want them to be is ridiculous. This is more in general and not about Google reviews mind you. For many people, this is EXACTLY what we wanted. It's an RPG with top-down shooter mechanics and a pretty interesting story with just as interesting characters. It's most definitely not without it's negatives, but there are very few games I would ever give 5 stars and actually think they are perfect. 5 stars is still 95% out of 100% at best for me. The narrative is solid, the fighting is solid, and the scope to use your imagination to solve problems you come across in the game is something that's far above most other games these days. On top of that, it's not overly complicated that makes it highly accessible to mostly anyone that wants to play it. Also, due to how the game is designed, there is most definitely replay value here as well. Do you want to be a good character and do everything you can without killing, stealing, or making morally gray or dark decisions, go for it. Want to play as evil and not only rain death upon your opponents, but also innocents if they get in your way as well as stealing and selling items back to vendors? Go for it. Want to be a mix of both and cause chaos? The choice is there. The things you do show up in the newpaper and sometimes in mailboxes. The deepness of the reputation system isn't a deep as say Fallout 3 and New Vegas, but I think it's fine not to be overall restricted by this system. The use of ambient sounds instead of music in most places was a deliberate choice and makes the world feel as desolate and lonely as it actually is. I love the lack of music and it wouldn't be the same with constant music playing as you travel. Events are (mostly) random as you travel the map, and if you don't go out of your way to unlock everything on the first go, it allows unique plays each time you play. Also, if you play a pacifist run, you're not require to kill the big bad (at least in earlier chapters) and they will be placed on a bounty board so you may choose if you want to gun them down later. THe choice is yours. As far as negatives? Not a fan of the reused tile-sets in battles. They could have spent more time making more unique tilesets. I think it was a bit lazy in this regard. Battle is sometimes a little *too* chaotic, but that's honestly just a minor nitpick. Also, the ridiculous strength that your posse can have once you beef them up... the player can fix this themselves so that's not really a negative. (just don't beef up your posse or even play with one other than... characters I won't say due to spoilers) That said, the AI can be stupid sometimes, both your Posse AI and the enemy AI. That said, I'm playing on Normal so this may or may not have bearing on AI intelligence. Can't say much on the story at this very moment, but so far it's been very solid and has shown the perspective of many types of people in the West and I've seen nothing negative about it just yet. Overall VERY solid game that people who actually like this type of game will enjoy. It's not perfect, but it's still a great time. Outside of Elden Ring, I haven't been this compelled to finish a game in the last decade, if I'm honest, so this is a drink of water in the desert. Of course stars are subject to change once I complete the game.

*Potential spoilers. You've been warned.* Yikes many of the commenters on here are ignorant of how nearly ALL zombie horror works? Have people not seen zombie movies, even the first? Zombies do NOT exist prior to the outbreaks thus no one would know to shoot them I'm the head. It's really not that difficult. Complaining about character's not shooting in the head is akin to us getting attacked by aliens and not immediately knowing their weakness. It's a dumb meta-based expectation. Having not watched Z-Nation before this, I had no expectations, but Black Summer does exactly why it sets out to do-- create a tension filled series that's all about showing over telling. There isn't much dialogue because there's not supposed to be. Not a whole lot is explained and there's not a fully fleshed out story because... There's. Not. Supposed. To be. (Not to mention no zombie series has a particularly good story to begin with) Some of the characters do act stupidly, namely the deaf guy who just jumped back and forth between stupid decisions that no realistic person would do. Also the guy who was drinking while driving during an apocalypse. C'mon... Who's going to take time to drink when they have to be hyper aware of their surroundings at all times in a hotel gh stress, live threatening situation? Not even an alcoholic, most likely. Also the whole school arc was a little... much. Other than some typical stupid horror decisions, I found nothing wrong with the series. It's basic zombie fare they focuses more on the character's journies than the zombies themselves, which is what a zombie horror really needs to do nowadays. It's not a long series and so isn't a large sink or time. Worth watching considering is October at the time of writing this. I'd say it's pretty par for the course but I'd above typical zombie horror these days.

While some of these episodes were hit or miss, the point of this series seems to have gone over some of these reviewers' heads. Being able to predict the ending of a horror movie doesn't make it a bad movie, otherwise the genre of horror would unanimously be trash. If twist endings were king, M. Night Shamalamadingdong would also be king. Also, despite the name "Two Sentence HORROR Stories", horror and suspense are two completely different genres (which works against it in this case). While some of this was horror, most of the episodes were more suspense or horror-suspense. The point of suspense isn't to be "scary" or to bring out fear. Once again, if a movie needed to be scary to be a good horror movie, all horror movies would be trash because I simply do not find movies as a media scary in the slightest. Getting that nonsense out of the way, the series is pretty good. Not great, but it does what it sets out to do-- create "horror" stories with two sentences as a lead. It's an interesting concept that I'm surprised hasn't been explored previously. Some of the episodes I really did enjoy from a story-writing point of view (the Make-up tutorial one stands out for me... not terribly unpredictable, but it didn't need to be), but others just kind of fell flat. Making a decent "scary" story on limited time is harder than people realize, and I give them credit for their work in that regard. Horror shorts, as a genre, needs far more representation as "big" productions which are typically pretty awful these days steal all of the spotlight. If you've got a little time to kill, no reason not to watch it.